Sentence examples for quantity of sediment from inspiring English sources
But even so, the quantity of sediment heading downstream will still make for a river that is very different, if for only a season, than what it was or what it will be.
The river is only 416 miles (670 km) long, but its large discharge of no less than 175,000 cubic feet (5,000 cubic m) of water per second transports a very large quantity of sediment that is rapidly filling the gulf.
Considering the present geomorphological features of the Rossano coast, marked by the presence of a pebble beach that continues below the sea level 5 10 m, it is reasonable to hypothesize that the back-wash flow accumulated a large quantity of sediment in the submerged beach, generating an extended submerged bar.
The sea annually receives an immense quantity of sediments, mostly from the Huang He (via the Bo Hai) and the Yangtze River, both of which have formed large deltas.
Our results indicate a well-defined boundary in the resistivity structure that can be used to estimate the quantity of sediments covering bedrock, thus highlighting the utility of this technique in studies of landscape evolution, sediment transport, and sediment budgets.
A total of 0.5 g of concentrated biomass and the same quantity of sediments were used for DNA extraction by using the UltraClean Soil DNA Extraction Kit (MOBIO Laboratories, Inc., CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
The Mississippi River discharges large quantities of sediment and dominates sedimentation regimes in the area.
Rivers transported great quantities of sediment to the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic Ocean.
These floods also produced huge quantities of sediment from erosion of rocks, which has the effect of helping to bury the organic matter on the ocean floor.
The interior drainage basin has received vast quantities of sediment and salt by those rivers, past and present.
These cores have revealed the importance of turbidity currents—occasional catastrophic torrents of sediment-laden, and hence denser, water flowing downslope under clear water as carriers of great quantities of sediment to the greatest depths in the Atlantic.
